The next Justice of the SCOTUS should be

[hifiguy]

Goodwin Liu

Liu is of Taiwanese descent.[8] Born in Augusta, Georgia,[2] as the second son of Wen-Pen and Yang-Ching Liu, both of whom came to the United States from Taiwan in the late 1960s when foreign doctors were being recruited to work in underserved areas. Liu and his family moved to Clewiston, Florida, shortly after his birth and then in 1977, they relocated to Sacramento, California, where Liu graduated from Rio Americano High School. He went to Stanford University and earned a B.S. in biology. While at Stanford, he was active in student politics as a member of the People's Platform, serving on the Council of Presidents of the ASSU. He attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship and earned a M. Phil in philosophy and physiology. Liu received his J.D. from Yale Law School.[9]

Personal

Liu is married to Ann O'Leary, the daughter of a social worker and a union leader, who grew up in Orono, Maine. She is the founding Executive Director of the UC Berkeley Center on Health, Economic & Family Security. Liu and his wife have one daughter, Violet, and one son, Emmett. Liu is a skilled chef and fisherman.[10] Liu's father, Wenpen Liu, is active in Taiwanese politics and is a main organizer in the Democratic Progressive Party overseas[11] and head of the Sacramento office of the Formosan Association for Public Affairs.

Career

Liu initially worked as an appellate litigator at O'Melveny & Myers in Washington. He later clerked for Judge David S. Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and then for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, where among other things, he contributed a draft to her dissent in Bush v. Gore.[12] He also served as special assistant to the deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Education and as senior program officer for higher education at the Corporation for National Service (AmeriCorps). He is also a former Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Constitution Society.[13]
He is currently a professor at University of California, Berkeley. He was elected to the American Law Institute in May 2008 and was elected to the ALI Council in May 2013. He currently serves as the chair of the ALI's committee on the Young Scholars Medal. He serves on the boards of the National Women's Law Center and the Alliance for Excellent Education.[13]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodwin_Liu

There has never been an Asian-American Justice, and it's well past time there was a justice of Asian descent. It's also hard to imagine more stellar credentials. And he clerked for Notorious RBG. Nuff said.

[randys1]

1. easy

[saltpoint]

2. Liu would be an excellent choice. eom

[piechartking]

3. Nominate a progressive black female judge...

...If the Republicans fight back all year, it will do nothing but inflame the AA community and inspire massive turnout. Obama may not be running again, but we can still ensure massive turnout.

[denbot]

5. This will sound harsh, but the first pick will be a throwaway.

The Repukes will go full bore against anyone, but if the nominee is an African American woman they will go bezerk. An AA sacrificial lamb would turnout that part of the base, and ease the way for the third or fourth pick to get a vote.

If the president sticks his thumb in the GOP's eye by nominating only AA women, not a single woman would be given the curtesy of a vote, but it would so expose the GOP house and senate for what they are, and would doom their chances for the Whitehouse, the Senate, and possibly even the house.

[hifiguy]

4. Kick

Way past time for an Asian-American on the SCOTUS.

[Vinca]

6. If the GOP derails the nominee and a Democrat wins the presidency,

it should be Obama. Heads would explode at a rate not previously seen.